in my application you login in a dialog, then a second dialog pops up, unfortunatly im having trouble making the login window disappear when the new one appears. ive tried using endialog before and after the DialogBoxParam and using ShowWindow set to SW_HIDE. i could use some kind of function in the WM_INITDIALOG message in the new dialog however im having trouble getting any function in the new dialog boxes proc to be able to use the previous dialogs HWND. i think i could use findwindow or something but my dialogs don't have a WNDCLASS, is there any other way?

i tried making the login window the parent then in the new window i made it use GetParent() then end the old window using the handle returned, this worked however the new window didn't have its own space in the taskbar. i tried using code from the "USECOM" example to make it "show" in the taskbar, this half worked, it had a place however the window wasnt entirely associated with it. when the window minimized it wouldn't minize into its taskbar space but into the bottom left corner and the title bar would sit there just above the "start" button. anyway i need some timeout this is stressing me out a bit . anyway heres the code (i took out the messy code which i described above which only half worked) i'd be grateful if you could just take a quick look at my code and maybe give me some advice (by the way the username and password are both "test").

it's supposed to be a chat room, im currently setting up my server to interact with the program, though sooner i get the UI done for this the better.

Do like this:
- create a dword variable initialized to 0 named hwnd_global (or sth similar)
- in wm_initdialog handler:
* check if [hwnd_global] == 0
* if yes copy [hwnddlg] to [hwnd_global]
* if no skip over to the next task (ie. do nothing)
- now pass the [hwnd_global] value to ShowWindow or EndDialog when needed